Peacock Nails for Hannah and OPI's You're Such a Budapest Swatch and Review!

Hello my lovely readers! Today I have a swatch and review of OPI's You're Such a Budapest and some peacock nail art to share!

This lovely lady posted in Reddit Laqueristas about her sick little sister recently, and it touched so many of us who frequent the subreddit. She painted a beautiful peacock on her sister's heart monitor because her sister, Hannah, loves peacocks. Here is her original post. If you're reading this, you should do some peacock nails too and post them to Reddit Laqueristas :). My heart goes out to Hannah and her family, I hope when she sees this it makes her smile!

I feel strange putting a review in this post so I'll keep it brief. This is just two coats of You're Such a Budapest because it had a perfect formula! It has some silver and possibly pink shimmer that's only visible in the Sun (you can see it in the sunny pictures coming up).

I know I'm not very good at painting anything realistic, but I really wanted to do the best peacock nails I could for Hannah! The green seen here is Essie Mojito Madness, the orange is Essie Tart Deco, and the blue is Sally Hansen Pacific Blue.

A picture of my dominant hand that's bad at posing :P.

Thank you for reading everyone! Go get your peacock nails on! :)

Sonnetarium's Blueberry Yogurt! :)

I got four lovely Sonnetarium polishes in the mail yesterday so I thought I'd share Blueberry Yogurt with you lovely people! It has a gorgeous blue and purple shimmer that is difficult to capture on camera (you can kind of see it in the last picture). Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing Vines of me moving my nails in the Sun when I wear a shimmery or glittery polish! Laura at Polish All The Nails does that and it's such a clever idea! You guys should check her out if you've never seen her before, she's so talented, I absolutely love her blog!

To get back on topic, Blueberry Yogurt is a beautiful medium purple jelly with dark blue small circle glitters and dark blue medium-sized hexagon glitters. I layered one coat of it over two coats Essie Play Date which is a bit of a warmer and less blue medium purple (so the colour Blueberry Yogurt appears on my nails isn't an accurate representation). I absolutely love the look of three coats of an indie jelly polish, but I keep buying small bottles of indie polish and I can't bear to waste them! I promise that the next indie glitter I wear I'll wear on its own! As I said above, Blueberry Yogurt also has a gorgeous blue and purple shimmer in it that doesn't photograph well. You can see the shimmer without sunlight, because it's darker and more blue than the polish. It almost looks like blue dust particles when not lit up by the Sun. So either way, it's a seriously awesome looking polish!

Onto the pictures!

Thanks for reading! :)

Red Nails with Rhinestones and Random Shapes!

These are just some plain red nails I kept adding to because I thought they were too boring! The shimmery darker purple is NOPI Fanatical Fuchsia, the lighter purple is Essie Play Date, the yellow is the awesomely-formulated Color Club Almost Famous, the darker blue is China Glaze Ride The Waves, the lighter blue is Sally Hansen Pacific Blue, and last but not least, the red is Sally Hansen Madame X!

On my left hand I painted the shapes with a small striper brush, and on my right hand I just used the brushes from the bottles and a dotting tool! The heart rhinestones are from a tiny set off of Amazon!

As always, thanks for reading! :)

Chevron Nails Take Two!

I think this is one of my favourite manis to date! :) I started with Essie's Bikini So Teeny thinking I'd be stamping over it, then completely changed my mind as you can see!

From left to right: Essie Bikini So Teeny, Essie Mod Square, and Essie Carry On :)

Boyfriend Did my Toes Again :)!

These were inspired by pwincessbuhuhcwuhp on Reddit from her post here!

From left to right: Sally Hansen Stunning Scarlet, Sally Hansen Madame X, China Glaze Oh How Street It Is, Sinful Colors Hazard, OPI Who Needs Sunglasses?, OPI Fiercely Fiona, Essie Mojito Madness, China Glaze For Audrey, China Glaze Secret Periwinkle, and Essie Play Date :)

Galaxy Nails Take Two? :)

I know I've done galaxy nails more than twice, but I think this is only my second galaxy manicure post on this blog! I was gonna go in and add cool triangles with other pastel colours but I didn't end up having time. The base is Essie's Devil's Advocate which is SUCH an awesome colour! It's a very dark purple jelly that looks only looks purple in the sun (and black everywhere else)! :)

From left to right: Essie Devil's Advocate, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, American Apparel Coney Island, Color Club Take Me To Your Chateau, and a homemade holographic topcoat made of a clear coat and a few drops of a silver holographic polish :)

I'm really trying to make my blog nicer and nicer lately and any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :) Thanks for reading!

Eight Polish Haul Featuring Hard Candy's Sugar Rush!

I've decided I'm going to start using my sister's awesome camera to take pictures of my nails and other people's nails that I do! The quality must be better than my Samsung S3's camera and I hope you can all see the difference in these pictures! My polishing job isn't perfect, but these are pre-cleanup and I thought they looked pretty good!

I got five polishes from my boyfriend's mom last night (left) and three from my boyfriend (right)... they're so generous and awesome! :)

From left to right: China Glaze's Platinum Pieces, Nicole by OPI's Fanatical Fuchsia, Nicole by OPI's Stolen Kisses, Nicole by OPI's Silver Texture, and China Glaze's Oxidized Aqua :).

From left to right: Revlon's Whimsical, Hard Candy's Sugar Rush, and Essie's Good to Go Topcoat! Now onto the nails :).

Polishes used: Nicole by OPI's Stolen Kisses, Nicole by OPI's Fanatical Fuchsia, and Hard Candy's Sugar Rush! :)

EDIT: Here's some shots I took with my new macro lens for my phone!

Flakie Mani on a Family Friend!

I painted my mom's best friend's nails last night and I thought I'd share! This is China Glaze's For Audrey, China Glaze's Secret Periwinkle, and Essie's Shine Of The Times :)!

Julep Grape Mani =)

My boyfriend started making grapes the other day on a plastic bag with my polishes so I decided to do some grapes today! All of the polishes I used are pictured below and you can see their names in one of the pictures!